Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 4 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 5 | " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . " |
| 6 | But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 7 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 8 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 9 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 10 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 11 | ‘ What does he want to interview you for ? ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 13 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 14 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 15 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 17 | An important element of any compensation payment is the damages intended to compensate you for the injury itself , and the effect it has on you and your lifestyle , both today and in the future . |
| 18 | They do n't want to know you at any other time … but most of them are n't like that here . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly . |
| 20 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 21 | Well , tonight you may leave early , but I want to see you with my guests every evening . |
| 22 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |
| 23 | I want to see you on your knees begging for my love before our time is up , and that will be all the satisfaction I need . ’ |
| 24 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 25 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 26 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 27 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 28 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |